Hail in Person County, North Carolina

Hail July 1, 2012 · Person County, North Carolina

1.75 in

Hail diameter

$2.0M

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Large hail to the size of golf balls completely destroyed 300 acres of tobacco, with other surrounding areas experiencing a 30 to 50 percent loss.

The wider storm

A lee side surface trough interacted with a very unstable atmosphere and produced clusters of showers and thunderstorms. Some of these storms became severe and produce large hail and damaging winds across all of central North Carolina.

Began near Ceffo (36.4686, -79.0575).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 405935. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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